• Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 27
• Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1924c: 5.
• Subspecies of Tetraponera attenuata: Forel, 1903a: 710; Forel, 1907d: 26.
• Subspecies of Tetraponera nigra: Forel, 1909i: 226; Wheeler, 1924c: 243.
• Status as species: Forel, 1912o: 55; Forel, 1913f: 662; Forel, 1913g: 190; Emery, 1921c: 27; Wheeler, 1929h: 59; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 82; Bolton, 1995b: 419.
• Junior synonym of Tetraponera attenuata: Bingham, 1903: 112; Ward, 2001: 622; Imai et al., 2003: 209; Lin & Wu, 2003: 68; Xu & Chai, 2004: 67; Terayama, 2009: 128.

Obsolete combinations

• Sima attenuata thagatensis

Citations

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